Assistant Sports Editor
The assistant sports editor will help the sports editor ensure that every sport on campus as well as intramural sports are covered in accordance with demand. Football coverage will be expected to include extensive features on players, coaches, media coverage of the football team or its fans, student and otherwise. The assistant sports editor will also write and assign stories for Gameday Magazine.
Position: Paid
The Assistant Sports Editor will:
- aid the Sports editor with assigning all sports stories (about 24) every week.
- be in the newsroom daily to read and edit sports stories as they come in on deadline (4 p.m.)
- perform other day-to-day tasks related to helping sports reporters get the information and help they need.
This position requires:
- knowledge of University of Alabama sports
- the ability to establish a beats system that includes all sports and ensure in-depth stories regularly come from them
- prior sports reporting experience and proficiency (benefits from a strong portfolio of clips)
